Wednesday June 2, 2016

Today's Learning:
Gym - 3 - 5 laps, hot dog tag, spider tag
Learning Commons story with Mrs. Reimer is reading 'Topper Cats'
Health - finishing up Health posters with partners
Music - pls see music blog
Body break - outside run then playground
Extra music - pls see music blog

Ask me:
- if I brought the health poster home tonight to work on
- to tell you the time

Reminders:

- no school Friday due to PD day
- Pizza day tomorrow for those who ordered
- CBE Transportation letter and pink school newsletter in backpack of youngest sibling or only child

Tuesday June 1, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting -Mr. D in today
Gym - 3 - 5 running laps, toilet tag, 2 games of floor hockey
Science - Rocks and minerals review
Literacy - RAZ Reading on the laptops
Guest Presentation - Little Green Thumbs
Music - pls see music blog
Body Break - Hang Man
Math - time with the clocks and white boards

Ask me:
- what the June virtue is? (humility)

Reminders:
- no school on Friday (PD Day)

Monday May 30, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class meeting - I am Confident' book read by student
Gym - 'Mystery Island' Relaxation activity
Health - safety posters with partner
Class novel: 'Author and the Minimoys'
Math in Motion - artist residency
Art - watercolour with Kandi

Ask me:
- to tell you about our 'Math in Motion' guest fun in the gym
     - what was our four beat pattern? snap, clap, flap, march.  number pattern was: 8, 4, 2, 1
     - how do we get from 8 to for?  how do we do this subtracting? what is the pattern rule? (we take      away half, or divide by two)
     - to show you a 4 point balance, 6 point balance
     - to show you a square with my body? can I change it to a rectangle?
     - how can I make a 2D shape with my body?  how can I change is so that it is 3D?
     - what the form of our dance presentation is - AABA?
     - what food was our dance based on? (potato chips)
     - to show you 'icecream and sprinkles' and 'tornado and sprinkles' (all movements)
- about my watercolor art piece

Reminders:
- no school this Friday due to PD Day

Friday May 27, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Gym: (outside - running warmup), tag games - toilet, freeze
- Science: butterfly life cycle discussion - parts of a butterfly - antenna, proboscis, wings, feet
- Guest Presentation: 'Math in Motion'
- ART afternoon - water colour techniques

Ask me:
- about the pattern in our 'Math in Motion' presentation (8, 4, 2,1)
- what are the opposites: shorter/longer, tall/short, small/big, forward/backward, odd/even, down/up, melt/blastoff, AABA, bicycle, bicycle, helmet, bicycle, circle, circle, square, circle
- what shapes we made with our bodies during our 'Math in Motion' movement? (triangle, square, diamond, rectangle, circle)
- what does 'gender', 'opaque' and 'translucent' mean?
- about these after color techniques: wash - solid & flat; wash - graded; wet in wet, dry brush; color lifting; salt; white crayon resist; transparency layers
- what the TIME is at different times of the day over the weekend

Reminders:
- last chance for pizza orders - due Monday

Thursday May 26, 2016

APOLOGIES for the late post - our BLOG was inopperable

Today's Learning:
-Learning Commons Book Exchange
- Science: life of a butterfly KWL chart.  working with a partner, writing down all of the things we think we know about butterflies
- Learning Commons computers - researching painted lady butterflies
Science - circle sharing of hide and seek rock descriptions
 - Math: Brainpop videos: time (elapsed time, time to the minute and time to the quarter and half hour)

Ask me:
- about the life cycle of a butterfly
- what books I signed out this week
- to show you the brain pop videos on TIME
- what the time is, at different times during the evening and after school

Reminders:
- pizza orders due Monday

Wednesday May 25, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Gym: 3-5 running laps, octopus tag
- Science: rock descriptive paragraphs 'Which rock am I?'
- Digital Champions Club sharing
- L.A. - continued writing of rock descriptions
- Music: pls see music blog
- Body break - outside run and games
- Math: extra 'time' practice on the iPods

Ask me:
- to tell you the time
- about our new 'babies' in our classrooms
- about the cool rock that I chose to describe today
- if I shared my 'Digital Champions' project with the classrooms
- how I enjoyed the sharing of the green screen, iMovie, Comic Life, Garageband and PhotoBooth projects

Reminders:
- pizza lunch forms due
- HOMEWORK - research: are 'Painted Lady Butterlies' only girls?  bring some name suggestions for tomorrow

Tuesday May 24, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Class meeting
- Creative Writing and art - volunteer cards
- Science - classifying rocks and minerals, describing rocks
- Music - pls see music blog
- Body break
- Math - introduction to 'TIME', brainpop videos.  www.jr.brainpop.com   login: vistaheights     password: brainpop    videos: 'calendar and dates', 'parts of a clock', 'time to the hour'

Ask me:
- to tell you the time
- to tell you the parts of a clock
- how I did at the volunteer tea performance this afternoon
- to go and find a few interesting rocks - I'll choose one, describe it to you (using works such as: hardness, color, texture - hough, smooth, weight - light/heavy,  shape: oval, square, rectangle, triangle, heart, diamond, lustre: shiny/dul, light: translucent/opaque, cleavage and fracture), then you have to guess which rock it is from the pile

Reminders:
- HOMEWORK - bring some interesting rocks and/or minerals to share with our class
- pink pizza notice